diff --git a/doc/release-notes/12065-allow-crud-on-archival-status-for-deaccessioned.md b/doc/release-notes/12065-allow-crud-on-archival-status-for-deaccessioned.md
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/doc/release-notes/12065-allow-crud-on-archival-status-for-deaccessioned.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This release removes an undocumented restriction on the API calls to get, set, and delete archival status. They did not work on deaccessioned dataset versions and now do. (See https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html#get-the-archival-status-of-a-dataset-by-version )
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diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Datasets.java b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Datasets.java
index 2378388c540..12dd984775d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Datasets.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/api/Datasets.java
@@ -5006,7 +5006,7 @@ public Response getDatasetVersionArchivalStatus(@Context ContainerRequestContext
             }
             DataverseRequest req = createDataverseRequest(au);
             DatasetVersion dsv = getDatasetVersionOrDie(req, versionNumber, findDatasetOrDie(datasetId), uriInfo,
-                    headers);
+                    headers, true);
 
             if (dsv.getArchivalCopyLocation() == null) {
                 return error(Status.NOT_FOUND, "This dataset version has not been archived");
@@ -5048,7 +5048,7 @@ public Response setDatasetVersionArchivalStatus(@Context ContainerRequestContext
 
                     DataverseRequest req = createDataverseRequest(au);
                     DatasetVersion dsv = getDatasetVersionOrDie(req, versionNumber, findDatasetOrDie(datasetId),
-                            uriInfo, headers);
+                            uriInfo, headers, true);
 
                     if (dsv == null) {
                         return error(Status.NOT_FOUND, "Dataset version not found");
@@ -5095,7 +5095,7 @@ public Response deleteDatasetVersionArchivalStatus(@Context ContainerRequestCont
 
             DataverseRequest req = createDataverseRequest(au);
             DatasetVersion dsv = getDatasetVersionOrDie(req, versionNumber, findDatasetOrDie(datasetId), uriInfo,
-                    headers);
+                    headers, true);
             if (dsv == null) {
                 return error(Status.NOT_FOUND, "Dataset version not found");
             }